A bunch of social media personalities have teased the Titan RTX, NVIDIA’s next flagship GPU, in what looks like a coordinated campaign. Google Brain co-founder Andrew Ng showed off the card on Twitter in an otherwise vanilla recruiting photo, “slow mo guy” Gavin Free teased a shot of it on Instagram with his cat, and […]
Earlier this year, the International Space Station got a new “crew member” of sorts: CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), an interactive AI assistant that can float around the station and help answer astronauts’ questions — kind of like a specialized spaceflight cross between Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Clippy. But CIMON’s debut — seen in a […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a force for good — or so asserts XPrize, a nonprofit organization that aims to spark projects that “solve societal grand challenges.” At the NeurIPS 2018 conference in Montreal, XPrize gave an update on its four-year effort to develop scalable AI technologies that address some of the world’s most difficult […]
Apple and Qualcomm have refused to budge in their fight over iPhone patent royalties, so they’re headed to court. A federal judge in San Diego has scheduled the companies’ trial for April 15th, 2019. Qualcomm had wanted a trial in February, but the judge determined that a delay was necessary due both to the court’s […]
Fans of a popular video game will soon be able to participate in a real-life version of it in Denver. “Mushroom Rally” will enable participants to race around a track as their favorite Mario Kart character. The British organizers call the event “a unique experience that combines your favourite characters, friends and new friends for […]
Microsoft and the US Army have announced a new contract that will see the latter using the former’s mixed-reality smartglasses, Hololens, to train soliders. A bidding war between Microsoft and Magic Leap for a US Army contract to develop AR devices has been raging for quite some time now, but it has finally concluded, and […]
Google earlier this year announced its take on the form factor popularised by Microsoft’s Surface Pro with the Pixel Slate. It would be a tablet that could replace your laptop, and it was gorgeous — the way Google told it. In reality, the Pixel Slate appears to be an amalgamation of the issues with Google […]
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) isn’t usually all that great at sharing its offerings with other platforms, typically preferring to keep as much as it can within its own proprietary platforms — that whole “walled garden” thing and all. It’s extremely rare for the Mac maker to offer its services on other platforms, but that’s precisely what is […]
It’s been a long time coming, but Google might finally put the kibosh on Hangouts in 2020. According to 9to5Google, citing sources familiar with Google’s roadmap, the legacy messaging app will shut down for consumers after next year. No specific timeframe was mentioned. This shouldn’t really come as a surprise — in March 2017, Google […]
Instagram wants to make it easier to share content with your inner circle. On Friday, the photo-sharing network announced the ability to share Stories with a smaller group of friends. The feature, called Close Friends, has begun rolling out globally. “Instagram Stories has become the place to express yourself and share everyday moments, but our […]
The Galaxy A8s will be Samsung’s first phone with a gorgeous Infinity-O display. That’s the kind of screen that occupies almost the entire front of the phone except for tiny bezels and a camera hole near the top. Samsung already teased the new design, and then introduced the Infinity-O screens at its SDC18 event earlier […]
The space station robot CIMON has exchanged its first words with its spacefaring crew. German astronaut Alexander Gerst talked with the artificially intelligent crew-assistant CIMON during a 90-minute experiment on Nov. 15 aboard the International Space Station (ISS). According to a statement from the manufacturer, Airbus, Gerst, the commander of the current space station crew, […]
